I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.